                    Chocobo Dragon Warrior v0.4 (7/30/00)
                        by Elric of EarthDrake Software
                             (C) 1999, 2000 EDS
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Files in the Archive:

ReadMe.Txt   -> A mysterious file...
ChocDw04.Ips -> The patch to turn Dragon Warrior into Chocobo Dragon Warrior
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'Elo, and welcome to my first hack. There's really not much to say, as the
lists of What's Done, Things To Do, Things I Might Do, and Things I Need To
Learn To Do pretty much sum everything up.

Please mail all comments, suggestions, gripes, etc. to Elric at
sirelric@netzero.net, or post them on my message board.

The latest version of this hack can always be found at
http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/sirelric/index.htm, and at
http://www.zophar.net/
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Thanks go out to:

* Enix, for making the Dragon Warrior/Quest Series
* Nintendo, for their glory days of the NES and SNES.
* SliverX, for his informative website (currently under redesign), and his
  very helpful Advanced ROM Hacking Document.
* Necrosaro, for creating Thingy.
* SnowBro, for creating TLayer and HexPosure.
* DWEdit, for creating Dragon Warrior TownEdit.
* BloodLust software, for creating NESticle.
* The entire ZSNES crew, for creating ZSNES (Obviously).
* Zophar's Domain.
* The friendly folks of Zophar's ROM Hacking Message Board.
* Dax, for making the IPS Patch maker program.
* The Magician/The MCA, for making SNESTool.
* Roto for his Dragon Warrior 1 Data Editor.
* Whoever created the .IPS system.
* All the people who have ever dumped a ROM.
* All the people who ever made a hack.
* All the people who have ever hosted a website for ROM/IPS downloading.
* Everyone who's ever made an emulator.
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Ok, here's a list of each version, and what I did to it.

v0.4 7/30/00
* Replaced the Floor tile I made with the Floor tile from Dragon Warrior 3.
* Replaced Drakee with V. Bat.
* Replaced MagiDrakee with Wiz V. Bat.
* Replaced Drakeema with Dead Bat.
* Replaced the Tree sprite with the Tree sprite from Dragon Warrior 3.
* Replaced Old Man sprite with an Old Man sprite from Final Fantasy Adventure.
* Replaced Tablet with Chocobo's Book.
* Replaced the Stairs Up & Down sprites with the Stairs Up & Down sprites
  from Dragon Warrior 3.
* Replaced the Hill sprite with the Hill sprite from Dragon Warrior 3.
* Replaced wandering Soldiers tile with Black Slime tile from Dragon
  Warrior 3.
* Replaced the Roof sprite with a sprite I found in Crystalis.
* Removed Princess Gwaelin from the game.
* Renamed Gwaelin's Love to Chocobo's Book.
* Shortened the ? sprite.
* Changed Command on the Menu to Action?.
* Changed Action Menu actions to upper and lower case letters.
* Changed Spell Names to upper and lower case letters.
* Changed GOLD to Gold.
* Changed the palette for the Merchant/Black Mage.
* Changed the palette for the regular Flame monster.
* Changed the King Kupan & Hero palettes. They're now outlined in black
  instead of brown and blue, respectively. The King Kupan palette hack also
  affects the wandering soldiers/heroes, and the Hero palette hack also
  affects the male & female villagers and the Chaos Lord.
* Changed the location of Tantegel Castle, Chocobo's Cave, and Garinham.
* Changed the contents of the treasure boxes in Tantegel Castle.
* Added a bridge to the entrance of Brecconary.
* Added an icon for the Dragon's Scale Helm.
* Added an icon for the Shields.
* Added an icon for the Armors.
* Added an icon for the Magic Key.
* Added an icon for the Fairy Water.
* Added an icon for the Fighter's Ring.
* Edited Tantegel Castle a little more.
* Edited The Town of Brecconary even more.
* Edited The Town of Garinham a little more.
* Edited the Chaos Lord's Lair even more.
* Due to my not following the instructions of the Dragon Warrior Town Editor,
  I ended up screwing up the overworld. It was so bad that I had to go back
  to v0.02 and re-do everything I did in v0.3, as well as not re-do a lot of
  the overworld editing. If you notice any major changes to the overworld, or
  towns/dungeons since v0.3, this is why.
* All of the stat changes, and most of the cost changes I made are gone,
  thanks to the above. I may or may not re-do the rest, depending on how I
  feel.

v0.3 8/24/99
* Replaced the old Floor tile I made with a new homemade floor tile.
* Replaced the Dragon Head Shadow on title screen with Chocobo Shadow.
* Replaced Castle Wall tile with Town Wall tile from Final Fantasy.
* Replaced lower half of Bridge tile with lower half of bridge tile from DW2.
* Replaced Inn sign with Inn sign from Dragon Warrior 3.
* Replaced Castle tile with Fort tile from Super Mario Bros. 3.
* Replaced Dungeon/Cave entrance with Tower tile from Super Mario Bros. 3.
* Replaced the Armor sign with the Armor sign from Dragon Warrior 3.
* Renamed Dragonlord to Chaos Lord.
* Changed Weapon Attack Powers by +6 each.
* Changed Armor Defense Powers by +6 each.
* Changed Shield Defense Powers by +6 each.
* Changed Swamp damage to 1 HP per step.
* Change Barrier damage to 10 HP per step.
* Changed starting HP to 20.
* Changed the prices of the Hand Axe, Herb, Torch, Dragon's Scale, Magic Key,
  Fairy Water, Cursed Belt, and Fighter's Ring.
* Changed XP & GP for Slime, Red Slime, Drakee, Ghost, and Magician.
* Change Metal Slime to be a little easier to kill.
* Added blue shading to the text.
* Hacked the title screen to read Chocobo Dragon Warrior VER 0.x.
* Removed door by stairs to throne room in Tantegel Castle.
* Edited The Town of Brecconary even more.
* Edited The Village of Kol.
* Edited The City of Rimuldar.
* Edited The Ruins of Hauksness.
* Edited Cantlin Castle Town.
* Edited Charlock Castle.
* Edited The Chaos Lord's Lair.
* Edited The Shrine of Sunlight.
* Edited The Shrine of Rain.
* Edited The Shrine of Rainbow.
* Edited The Passage to Rimuldar.

v0.02 8/15/99
* Replaced Sales Counter tile with Sales Counter tile from Dragon Warrior 2.
* Replaced Castle Wall tile with a tile I found in Super Mario Bros. 2.
* Replaced the Brick Floor tile with a tile I found in Super Mario Bros. 2.
* Replaced the Water tile with the Water tile from Super Mario Bros. 2.
* Replaced the Town tile with a modified Village tile from Dragon Quest 1&2r.
* Replaced Merchant sprite with Black Mage from Final Fantasy Adventure.
* Replaced Male Villager sprite with Dwarf from Final Fantasy Adventure.
* Redesigned the Barrier tile.
* Redesigned the Grass tile.
* Redesigned Stairs Up & Stairs Down tiles.
* Renamed Bamboo Pole to Bamboo Beak.
* Renamed Club to Claw.
* Renamed Swords to Talons.
* Renamed Leather Armor to Chocobo Armor.
* Renamed Clothes to Fethers. (Speling eror? Wut speling eror? ;D)
* Changed the border around text boxes.
* Changed a small portion of the Overworld map.
* Made a few minor changes to Kol & Rimuldar maps.
* Replaced text on Title Screen.

v0.01 - 7/16/99
* Replaced Hero sprite with Chocobo sprite from Final Fantasy Adventure.
* Replaced King sprite with Moogle sprite Final Fantasy Adventure.
* Replaced Treasure Box sprite with Treasure Box sprite from Final Fantasy 4.
* Replaced Door sprite with Door sprite from Solomon's Key.
* Replaced Girl sprite with Mouse sprite from Final Fantasy Adventure.
* Replaced Select sprite with Finger sprite from Final Fantasy 4.
* Replaced More Prompt with Finger sprite from Final Fantasy 4.
* Replaced Guard sprite with Robot? sprite from Final Fantasy Adventure.
* Replaced Slime and Red Slime with Flame and Red Flame.
* Replaced font with Final Fantasy Adventure font.
* Renamed King Lorik to King Kupan.
* Renamed Erdrick to Chocobo.
* Redesigned Tantegel Castle layout.
* Redesigned Erdrick's Cave layout.
* Edited Brecconary.
* Edited Garinham.
* Changed the text shown when you Save and Quit.
* Whatever it is I'm forgetting...
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And here's the list of what's left to do:
* Rename the items, weapons, and armor.
* Whatever it is I'm forgetting...

Along with the list of things I /might/ do:
* Hack the Chaos Lord 
* Change the remaining monster sprites.
* Change the remaining miscellaneous sprites.
* Change damage from spells.
* Rewrite the story. (Or at least edit it some...)
* Improve/Replace various background sprites.
* Increase or decrease the power of weapons, armor, & shields.
* Increase or decrease the damage from swamps & barriers.
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I ran this through a spell checker. There were so many spelling mistakes I
nearly cried. :~(
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Finally, I am in no way responsible for any problems this file may cause your
system, so if your computer blows up, gets a virus, laughs at you, calls you
names, etc., don't blame me. Thank you, and have a nice life. =D
